Videomation is a North America-exclusive art application for the Nintendo Entertainment System that was released in 1991. Overview This application allows players to create artwork using a mostly freestyle method, with support for full video animation. The game does not support the use of a mouse or any other external component, requiring users to rely on the NES game controller to draw objects. There is a basic grey screen surrounded by graphics stamps. This application utilizes the CHR RAM chip that is also used in a variety of other contemporaneous NES video games. Thirteen different variations of palettes and seven different kinds of tools (including a pen, various geometric shapes,and the eraser) are available for use in creative compositions. Once the user chooses one of the palettes, there are different colors to choose. The colors include these: turquoise, pink, purple, light blue, and colors that have been dithered. After drawing a stationary picture, the game allows to place one of a few possible animatable objects (these include a man, a child, a car, a plane, etc.) and then choose a path it will follow on the screen. One options allows the object to follow the cursor. The game's instruction manual has some ideas for drawing including these: geometric designs with intense patches of color, birds flying over untamed jungles, cars on a race track, and dinosaurs in the user's imaginary backyard. There is no data storage or export medium, so pictures and video can only be saved by recording a playback of the NES's display through a VCR. Reception According to InstallSoftware.com, the game offers a relatively good short-term replay factor while lacking on the long-term replay factor. See also Mario Paint Mario Artist References 1991 video games Nintendo Entertainment System games Nintendo Entertainment System-only games North America-exclusive video games THQ games Video games developed in the United States